Quiche Lorraine

French salty cake from the sixteenth century.

Preparation time: 1 hour and a half

Difficulty: Medium

Ingredients

For the dough:

200 g flour

50 g butter

1 tablespoon milk

Salt

For the filling

100 g ham in 2 thick slices

100 g blue cheese

150 g soft unripened cheese

4  eggs

1 glass milky cream

20 g butter

Salt and pepper

Nutmeg

 Preparation

1. To prepare the dough: mix butter, flour a bit of salt and a tablespoon of milk and work it with the hands.

2. With a rolling pin (in case you don’t have a rolling pin be creative and use a glass or other similar thing)

3. Grease a cake tin with butter and spread the dough covering the bottom of the cake tin and 5cm. of its walls.

4. Cut the ham in squared shapes or stripes.

5. In a little pot, melt the chesses and let it get cold. Then, add the beaten eggs and mix well, after that, add the milky cream, the ham, a bit of salt, pepper and nutmeg and mix it all well.

6. Put the mixing into the cake tin with the dough.

7. Preheat the oven at 250ºC and put the quiche inside the oven for 40 min. You can serve it hot or cold.

Bon appetit!